Leading People in Creative Team at Apple Inc.

This presentation discusses the importance of leadership in a company and how it depends on the nature and goals of the company. It focuses on Apple Inc and the different leadership styles used by the company, including autocratic and democratic leadership. The presentation suggests that in the current business environment and uncertainty, transformational leadership and laissez-faire leadership are the best suited styles. It also discusses the HR strategies implemented by Apple Inc for improving employee engagement, such as communication, feedback, clear goals, empowerment, recognition, and learning. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of leadership in every type of company and the need for different leadership styles in different situations.

LEADING PEOPLE IN
CREATIVE TEAM
APPLE INC.

 INTRODUCTION
 MAIN BODY
 APPLE INC
 DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP STYLE USED BY APPLE INC
 THE LEADERSHIP STYLE BEST SUITED IN THE CURRENT
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND UNCERTAINTY
 IMPLEMENTATION OF HR STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENTS UNDER DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP
 STYLES AND CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS.
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Leadership in a company is very important because it leads people in right
direction and encourage them for achieving its group goals efficiently and
effectively with full coordination and cooperation.
 Leading people in a company depends upon the nature and goals of the
company and its cultural behaviours because due to differences in culture
and work it creates tough challenge for the company or leader to make its
team work according to the need of businesses.
INTRODUCTION

 Apple Inc is a very successful American multinational technology
company specialize in electronic items or software development tools.
 Providing various type of online services to its customers it has its
headquarters in Cupertino, California, United States .
 This is the world second most successful company whose founder is Steve
Jobs, Steve Wozniak in 1976.
Apple Inc

 This company is using various leadership styles for leading the group and
company in a right directions for achieving the goals effectively
Autocratic leadership style
 Apple Inc is following this type of leadership because the top management
team in some situations or decisions does not want to interfere staff
members and subordinates in their businesses.
 The decisions regarding products and expansion of business and new
strategy implemented is done by the top management and the lower only
has to obey the orders. Autocratic leader develop itself the leadership
strategy, policies, procedure and direction in which an organisation need to
work
DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP STYLE
USED BY APPLE INC

 Democratic leadership style
 This leadership style is also called participative leadership style which is
followed by this company for involving group members and subordinates
in the decision making.
 This leadership style involves gathering of all the team members on day to
day activities of decisions.
CONTINUE

 Due changing environment and uncertainty of future the leadership style
selected by an organisation is very important decisions because future is
uncertain and due changes in economic, technological, social, legal etc and
affects the company environment completely.
 Apple Inc is having its business worldwide and every change in area of
market or any uncertainty will directly affects the profits and working of
the company
THE LEADERSHIP STYLE BEST
SUITED IN THE CURRENT
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND
UNCERTAINTY

 This company should use Transformational leadership style so the
company can make its employee or leader capable of adapting the change
and solve its day to day activities by its own so there is no need to involve
or wastage of time in solving the conflicts by the leaders.
 In this the employees are trained and educated so that they can able to
make its full efforts in doing the work according to the needs. The trained
employees will face all the difficulties by its own and involves ways for
solving day to day problems for no wastage of time and energy by the
leaders.
TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP

 Sometimes it is recommended that in case of uncertainty of market and
company environment the employees knows it better to how to solve the
problems and manage them.
 This leadership style gives them the chance to solve the problems by
employees without any help or support of leaders.
 The leaders are hands off in this situation because they give all the
authority and power to the employees for making decisions in groups and
work on them with complete peace and coordination.
LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP

 HR strategy are used by Apple Inc for solving various issues related to
challenging environments and improving all the employees engagements
which are:
Implementation of HR strategy for improving
employee engagements under different leadership
styles and challenging environments.

 Communication is very important in every type of work performed by the
groups of the company like in democratic leadership style the decisions
cannot be taken easily.
 Proper communication between the leaders and the employees is required
like communicating ideas and thoughts with leaders so that decisions can
be put forward to the top management.
COMMUNICATION ON REGULAR
BASIS

 The Second strategy is used by the company is inviting feedbacks both
negative and positive so that the company’s leaders get to know how the
team and work is going correctly in a right direction or not.
 Apple Inc has developed many online surveys or methods in which the
employees can place their views and opinions regarding the their problems
and work so that actions are being taken by the employees to solve them.
ENCOURAGING FEEDBACKS

 Apple Inc goals and mission must be communicated by all the members
and employees at each level so that they are clear about their work and
roles.
 If the roles and goals of the company are not clear then the company have
to face losses. More clear are the roles and responsibility to employees
more will be the accuracy in the work by all the individual efforts.
CLEAR ORGANISATIONAL GOALS
AND OBJECTIVES

 Apple Inc company is trying to empower there employee by making its
employees feel attached and involved by communicating with them
properly.
 The leaders should show them appreciation by encouraging their work and
developing there skills to work more hard and with full efficiency in this
tough environment.
EMPOWER EMPLOYEES

 The leaders of this company is using the strategy in which they are
recognising the good performances of all the employees in front of
everyone.
 This company is on monthly basis rewarding and appreciating teams for
good performances so that their team moral can be increased and they will
work with more efforts in the future.
RECOGNISING GOOD
PERFORMANCES

 The company Apple Inc is offering various types of learning and education
on every monthly or yearly basis so that all the employee will get more
knowledge in the field of working with new peoples get knowledge of all
departmental working.
 More the experienced and knowledge the employees have more will be
there capacity to face all the challenges in an environment.
 The leaders is maintain this company culture by providing all the training
and courses needed for doing the work for making them feel more satisfied
in doing the work.
OFFERING LEARNING AND
CONTINUING EDUCATION

 This company’s leaders are creating an transparent environment for
building the team so that they work with no confusion and
misunderstanding.
 Team work is important for huge efficiency and effectiveness in working
or in case of uncertainty and challenges.
SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND TEAM
BUILDING

 From the above report it has been concluded that leadership is important in
every type of company big or small and every different company uses
different leadership according to their situations.
 The leadership style which is most commonly used by all the company
democratic leadership in which the employees or leaders together takes all
the decisions.
CONCLUSION

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